Lok Sabha elections 2024 Phase 7: Last day of voting on June 1; full list of constituencies and key candidates here
Bihar (8 seats)1. Arrah2. Buxar3.
Karakat4. Jahanabad5. Nalanda6.
Patna Sahib7. Pataliputra8. Sasaram1.
Barasat2. Basirhat3. Diamond Harbour4.
Dum Dum5. Jaynagar6. Jadavpur7.
Kolkata Dakshin8. Kolkata Uttar9. Mathurapur1.
Chandigarh1. Mandi2. Shimla3.
Kangra4. Hamirpur1. Balasore2.
Bhadrak3. Jajpur4. Jagatsinhpur5.
Kendrapara6. Mayurbhanj1. Dumka2.
Godda3. Rajmahal328 candidates from Punjab and 144 from Uttar Pradesh are in the fray for 13 seats each, respectively. 134 candidates are contesting on eight seats from Bihar, 66 from Odisha on six seats, 52 from Jharkhand on three seats, 37 from Himachal Pradesh on four seats and and 19 from Chandigarh for one seat.1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi (BJP) and Ajay Rai (Congress): Varanasi has been the constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi since 2014.
Congress party has fielded fielded Ajai Rai from Varanasi for the third time. Rai was earlier part of BJP but quit in 2007. He began his journey with Congress in 2012 when he contested from Pindra (earlier known as Kolasla) and defeated a BJP candidate.
The party then fielded him from Varanasi against the PM Narendra Modi. In the 2019 Lok Sabha election, Rai secured the third position. 2. Ravi Kishan (BJP): In Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur, BJP has fielded candidate politician and actor Ravi Kishan from the constituency.
Samajwadi Party's candidate Kajal Nishad is contesting from this seat. In 2019 Lok sabha elections, Ravi Kishan had won from the seat with 60% and above votes while SP candidate Rambhual Nishad finished second and got 415,458 votes. 2. Kangana Ranaut (BJP): This year, BJP has fielded actress Kangana Ranaut from Himachal Pradesh's Mandi seat.
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